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New study, led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History, shows that living sharks are actually quite advanced in evolutionary terms, despite having retained their basic “sharkiness” over millions of years.

The 2014 Webby Award nominees are in, and the Museum’s The Power of Poison: Be a Detective iPad app has gotten a nod from the Academy (the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, that is). Now we need your vote.

If you want to spoil budding paleontologists, says Alexander Kellner, co-curator of the new Pterosaurs exhibition, send them on their first dig to the Romualdo Formation in the Araripe Basin, in northeastern Brazil.

Mary Blair, assistant director for research and strategic planning at the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation,is surveying for lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus) in Bu Gia Map National Park in Vietnam.